Coloured crosshair range finder idea...

R3L!K · Post by **R3L!K** » 05-10-2003 12:53

makes up for my Redsay, Bluesay 'suggestion' ¬_¬

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 05-10-2003 13:10

Oooh yeh that was really bad.

R3L!K · Post by **R3L!K** » 05-10-2003 14:28

Post by **DavidM** » 05-10-2003 14:31

>:|

this has just been suggested 2 weeks ago, and I already pointed out why it cannot be done.

fro · Post by **fro** » 05-10-2003 15:06

why not just make a custom crosshair of a dot surrounded by a circle with distance of the volley/boost radius?

obviously it wouldnt change colour but its a start

Messy · Post by **Messy** » 05-10-2003 15:20

DavidM wrote: >:|

this has just been suggested 2 weeks ago, and I already pointed out why it cannot be done.

Huh? O_o where?

I thought i read everything on this forum /o\

R3L!K · Post by **R3L!K** » 05-10-2003 15:35

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Post by **DavidM** » 05-10-2003 15:36

Hm i don't find it either now.

Well, its a performance thing. Doing it server side would eat soo much performance......checking the distances of 10 players too many times a second....
Doing it client side would give you wrong results (crosshair tells you you can boost, but actually you are 1cm too far away for it...)

R3L!K · Post by **R3L!K** » 05-10-2003 15:38

could u tell me how to set the cross hair circle radius then? might as well try it...

R3L!K · Post by **R3L!K** » 05-10-2003 15:58

DavidM wrote: Hm i don't find it either now.

Well, its a performance thing. Doing it server side would eat soo much performance......checking the distances of 10 players too many times a second....
Doing it client side would give you wrong results (crosshair tells you you can boost, but actually you are 1cm too far away for it...)

what about if it just checked the distance from the ball...

then u could still scan for volley distance (and player hitting maybe) and save performance too

Armagon · Post by **Armagon** » 05-10-2003 17:05

Another interesting idea, but I don't think it should be done.

Post by **DavidM** » 05-10-2003 17:41

Relik, its exactly the same. And for the ball its uninteresting, when a ball is flying past you it goes that fast, you have no time to react to the crosshair color change. For boosting it would be good, but cannot be done it seems.

Chick-kun · Post by **Chick-kun** » 05-10-2003 18:45

this idea wouldnt eat up _too_ much performance:

maybe instead of your xhair turning a different colour, how about it locks on to the object in the appropriate colour? like the ball lock on, beeps n stuff (client side configurable but server side for taking into account lag). solves the multi item thing problem

=)

R3L!K · Post by **R3L!K** » 05-10-2003 18:48

fair enough

guess thats that then

Lithinite · Post by **Lithinite** » 05-10-2003 18:53

hrm.. the current circle crosshair works fine for boost and hit radius on the central radar...

just touching the line is team boost and over 1/2 in the circle is enemy. You just have to adjust the central radar zoom distance.